[OpenSocial] Basic newbie question

2009-09-09 Thread Kenny Dunn
I need to be able to securely identify the user on the back end, preferably with their email address. Does anyone have any example of this? I know it seems pretty basic, but I'm just getting started. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are

[OpenSocial] Re: Basic newbie question

2009-09-09 Thread Chris Chabot
Hey Kenny, From your email I'm not entirely sure what type of application you're building, so that makes it somewhat harder to comment on what the right approach would be, but in a general sense my comment would be that you're thinking the wrong way around for a social app. In the clasic a user

[OpenSocial] Re: Basic newbie question

2009-09-09 Thread Mauro Gonzalez
You can should us signed requests, then you'll get the oensocial_user_id, and validate the request signature using OAuth. On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Kenny Dunn gkennyd...@gmail.com wrote: I need to be able to securely identify the user on the back end, preferably with their email

[OpenSocial] Re: Best approach for OS gadget development?

2009-09-09 Thread goosemanjack
Your time frame for when you want to release will drive your choice of platform. If it's immediate you will need to either write for 0.8 containers or write an external app on top of the OpenSocial REST endpoints and make use of one of the SDKs out there. If your time frame is in the 4-6 month